In 2002, a Navy SEAL team found an alarming paper trail in an Afghani cave cluster: Agriculture articles translated into Arabic. USDA documents. A list of livestock pathogens. A rundown of crop diseases. And … training documents — how to deploy pathogens on farms. (Modern Farmer)

Spider-goats: Take a spider gene that encodes web production and place and mix it in a goat’s udder DNA. What do you get? Literally, an elastic milk filled with spider-silk protein that is showing great promise in the medical field. And spider-goats aren’t even cutting edge. (The Guardian)

Catch a field after a rain; run a metal detector over forgotten ground; or simply stand in a favored spot when a field is flipped — and in those painfully rare moments the ground may give up a treasure — literally. (WFP)